Cumulative Layout Shift Changes in Chrome 90

Bug fixes involving changes to transform, effect, clip or position

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Consider transform change countering layout shift

Corresponds to the spec change Source code

Ignore layout shift for more invisible elements

The following nodes are ignored for layout shift:

texts with unrenderable font or containing all whitespaces,
blocks without any decorations or any children.

If you still see layout shift reported for an invisible element, you can try to add ‘visibility:hidden’ to the element's style.

Ignore inline direction shift moving from/to out of view

Improvement for shift with counterscroll

When were users affected?

Chrome 90 is currently scheduled to be released the week of April 13, 2021.